Church Of St. Mary The Virgin

The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, built in 1758, possibly designed by John Pitt, is located in Stratfield Saye Park. It replaced a medieval church on a new site and features a Greek Cross plan with an octagonal tower above the crossing. The church has a copper dome topped with a finial and low-pitched copper roofing on the arms. The walls are made of painted brickwork in English bond, with a moulded brick cornice, a pediment effect at the gables, and a plinth. The octagonal section has a stepped cornice, with circular slatted openings on the axes and a band above roof level.

The entrance facade on the north side includes three circular lights above three arched openings, featuring a springer band. The windows are round-headed, with a single window centrally located on some arms and pairs of windows elsewhere, the outer ones fitted. The leaded lights are set within cross frames, with the southern (east) window designed in a Venetian style within an outer arch. The north gable has a circular window above a classical doorway, which includes a cornice, frieze, and architrave.

Inside, the pulpit is from the old church, and the west arm contains original box pews, which were copied in the restoration. The font is a Victorian piece in the style of Wren. There is a gallery in the north and east arms, the latter housing an 18th-century organ. The church features notable monuments to the Pitt family, dating from 1636, 1734, and 1803, as well as wall monuments to the Dukes of Wellington. Despite the raised dome on the exterior, the ceiling inside is flat with plain coving. The open porch has a floor made of medieval tomb slabs that once contained 15th-century brasses for the Darbridge court family, who lived there from about 1620 to 1815. The church underwent restoration in 1965.